Bach of Advanced Sci (Hons) specialisation in Computational Biology

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Researchers in computational biology specialise in creating computational models of living systems and fitting them to real data. We develop state of the art software for probabilistic modelling of genomic data and other evolving systems.
Our interests span topics such as the origins of life and artificial life, genomic sequence analysis, representing and reasoning about biological knowledge, the evolution and spread of infectious diseases, and the theoretical aspects of phylogenetics and networks.
We have strong working relationships throughout the university, with collaborations in the School of Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Complete 330 points comprising:

75 points from Stage I Courses, and
60 points from Group 1 Stage II Courses, and
15 points from Group 2 Stage II Courses, and
15 points for all Stage III Compulsory Course, and
15 points from Stage III Statistics Elective Courses, and
15 points from Stage III Biological Sciences Elective Courses, and
15 points from Additional Stage III Elective Courses, and
45 points for all Level 700 Compulsory Courses, and
45 points from Level 700 Elective Courses, and
30 points for all Research Project

Stage I Courses

Complete exactly 75 points from the following:

BIOSCI 101 - Life! Origins and Mechanisms (15 points)

BIOSCI 108 - Biodiversity: Patterns of Life (15 points) or
BIOSCI 109 - Ecology and Evolution: The Continuum of Life (15 points)

COMPSCI 120 - Mathematics for Computer Science (15 points)

COMPSCI 130 - Introduction to Software Fundamentals (15 points)

STATS 101 - Introduction to Statistics (15 points)

Group 1 Stage II Courses

Complete exactly 60 points from the following:

BIOSCI 202 - Genetics (15 points) or
BIOSCI 203 - Biochemistry (15 points)

COMPSCI 220 - Algorithms and Data Structures (15 points)

COMPSCI 225 - Discrete Structures in Mathematics and Computer Science (15 points)

BIOSCI 220 - Quantitative Biology (15 points) or
STATS 201 - Data Analysis (15 points)

Group 2 Stage II Courses

Complete exactly 15 points from the following:

BIOSCI 2**

Stage III Compulsory Course

Complete 15 points for ALL of the following:

COMPSCI 369 - Computational Methods in Interdisciplinary Science (15 points)

Stage III Statistics Elective Courses

Complete exactly 15 points from the following:

STATS 330 - Statistical Modelling (15 points)

STATS 331 - Introduction to Bayesian Statistics (15 points)

Stage III Biological Sciences Elective Courses

Complete exactly 15 points from the following:

BIOSCI 3**

Additional Stage III Elective Courses

Complete exactly 15 points from the following:

BIOSCI 3**

COMPSCI 3**

COMPSCI 3***

MATHS 3**

MATHS 3***

STATS 3**

Level 700 Compulsory Courses

Complete 45 points for ALL of the following:

BIOSCI 700 - Phylogenetics (15 points)

BIOSCI 701 - Practical Approaches in Genomics (15 points)

BIOSCI 702 - Modelling Biological Processes (15 points)

Level 700 Elective Courses

Complete exactly 45 points from the following:

BIOSCI 7**

COMPSCI 7**

COMPSCI 7***

MATHS 7**

STATS 7**

Research Project

Complete 30 points for ALL of the following:

COMPSCI 789A - Honours Research Project (15 points)

COMPSCI 789B - Honours Research Project (15 points)